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Parker solar probe images.
Wispr s telescopes will provide white light images of the solar wind shocks solar ejecta and other structures as they approach and pass the spacecraft.
See images of nasa s parker solar probe mission which the agency plans to launch in july 2018.
The bright streak is a coronal streamer.
An artistic rendering of solar orbiter at the sun.
The wide field imager for solar probe or wispr is aboard nasa s parker solar probe to take images of the solar corona the sun s atmosphere and inner heliosphere.
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The wispr instrument on nasa s parker solar probe captured imagery of the constant outflow of material from the sun during its close approach to the sun in april 2019.
The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
But the parker solar probe does not have a camera that images the sun s surface directly and that s where solar orbiter comes in handy.
When the parker solar probe reaches the sun we can expect images of a very different kind.
An unprocessed image from the wispr instrument on board nasa s parker solar probe shows comet neowise on july 5 2020 shortly after its closest approach to the sun.
Since that fiery early morning liftoff with the mission s namesake eugene parker in attendance the probe has made.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.
Parker solar probe acquired this image 1st ever photo taken from inside the sun s outer atmosphere or corona on december 8 2018.